Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-06-01

(. 1 bound hN the ties uf a common brother
 hood, and no man has right Co wrap
 the garb of self-righteousness abont him
 and with an air of naughty indifference
 exclaim: "l will do as l please: it is no- ,s body's business" Ii Is somebody's busi-
 ness. IL is my business, and il Is your
 business, to restrain the arm that doeth
 evil. If my brother oyersteps the bounds
 of decency and good order, does he not d bring discredit upon me and the entire
 fam;lys And if address myself in the | language of one of old, Am I my 9 brothers keeper!" will that either re- - lease me or remove the stain of guilty
 Never. This Is analogous in a nation,
 and in the family of nations.
 We differ somewhat from the mother country in our principles and in the ap- plication of them. And when our faith 5 | CTS tore away from the tyranny of King Georges throne. and yentured forth in
 the Mayfiower of our hopes, bu. upon an
 unknown wilderness oi waters, they car
 ried a new tree of liberty to a new land -a tree dedicated to the proposition that
 all men are created equal. ofitimes ii has
 bowed to the blast of opposition, t has
 at last sunk its roots deep, 1t has sent
 them to the very center. Its fruit-laden
 branches stretch broad and high, and its
 top towers 10 the heavens
 In Anglican liberty the individual sub
 serves the state The individual as such |
 Is nothing, but the state is everything
 But in our own country the highest and l ultimate aim oi government Is the hap piness and protection of the individual. | To such interests and principles the | American soldier Is martyr, and as we | stand over their graves and twine the | votive laurel, let each resolve for himself |
 that they shall not have died in vain Oh, the grave, the grave, what a place for meditation. For
 | "Ail that tread the globe gre bGt asniful % The tribes
 That slumber in it's bosnnl Take the wiaE, | of the morning, t.averse sarcs'- desert sands 1 Or loose myself in the eontiuuous woods Where rolls the Oregon an 1 hears uu sound | Save its own dashings-yet d the drsd aye th re | Since the grave is the goal oi our 1 earthly ambitions, what matter whether the Parian marble glistens over our heads and tells the passer by how great l We were, or whether a wagon track IS drawn over our graves and naught ma terial remains to testify that we had l lived. If We have helped tO swell the 1
 tide of good influences in the world We
 may lie down wish the kings and poten-
 tates of earth while the circles of those
 influences widen into eternity.
 We, as nation. are the most success
 ful experiment of self-goyernment by the people, and We owe this honor to the
 living and dead. Indeed, what element
 Is wanting to evoke the passionate love | of every American citizen for bis coun- ! try? Is it heroic achievement Again | : and again has the naughty lion of King q George been brought to the dust and the 5 titled chivalry of England overthrown by 1 s the resistless onset oi the sons oi liberty . led by Washington. Is il moral sutlim- ity, Behold WitherspoOn in the c0nti- l I mental congress, Washington st Valley ! Forge, Clay in the senate of 1850. ls it ' that We have no historical meccasf | T Where shall patriot muse and pray II not by the shades of Vernon or Ash s land, at Marshfe,d or the Hermitage. V Have We no great names to go flaming l V down the agesg When will Henry's ? clarion voice be hushed, or Warren l q cease to tell men how to die for hbertyl 1 c When will Adams and Jefferson and 1 L Franklin fade from history? Is it that t We have no battlefelds? Goto Concord O. and Lexington and Princeton and Tren- ton and Saratoga and Bunker Hill. And what has shed an imperishable re- nowl over the never dying names and IT those hallowed spots. but the blood of struggles, the high daring and patriot ism and sublime courage of our heroes@
 History with pen of fire records our !, inhuman struggles and NaIOleonic ii achievements Look at the gallant army without food, without pay, shel- !, terless, hopeless, penniless and almost | naked in that dreadful winter,-the midnight of our revolution, whose wan E derings could be traced by their blood | ., tracks in the snow And many a gal lant brave poured out his hearts blood | there. Or Is it sherman in the late | sI Rebellion marching through Georgia to S the Sea, burning the bridges behind U him, and saying "Come on boys, follow :, me. fight or die ?" Or the gallant boys V in blue starving in the slaughter pens oi Libby Prison or AndersonyilleT Oh the struggles, the blood, the pain, the | t death. that We might live and with all the ~ Iefinements of our modern civilization And in token of our veneration for the :, beroic dead, We this day strew flowers ' and boquets over their newly dressed l = graves. Flowers that bespeak beauty " purity and love. Flowers that gem the | n green earth, the kisses Of God. What better tribute can we payg The soidiers \ are dead The musket is hung on the A rack against the wall. The old suit is q laid aside or lost The faithful war ! r horse no longer snufis the battle from afar. The widows tears are dried. those W ears having frozen into dim recollec- sl tions of the days of blood. But these flowers blooming over the soldiers graves, indicate that the soldiers vet ! A. live; their memories are forever greer, Il and their deeds do live after them | al Do | say that they are dead7 No, n They have only folded their white tents 1 n to plant them as white winged angel> l T of peace on the eternal camping | e. grounds. Do they not look down $, upon us over their folded flags BOW e. holding in their hands the diadeu Ol | r tru hg Verify. they are not dead, put I, they live, and will live when ihe sun |. grows cold and black and falls from the ir heavens. The stately marble and s, bronze now rises to perpe;uate their |, memory, but these princely structures T, eaten by the canker tooth cf time shall ,, fall like untimely leaves into dust. i, But the soldiers of the rebellion will !, live in the deep engraved lines of pub Il lie opinion, in their virtuous actions, s, and veriiy in the respect and homage oi " As long as a human heart ihrobs; as long as Union-lovng citl- zen lives; as lng as national pride is Y with the race: as long as m-nory fondly cheriShes tiS. which is s mc.t dear, so long will the American ?. patriot and soldier he preeminenily rc- yered and honorcd. F
 Considering the present signs Q, the r times, We greatly need living heroes moral heroes the world over. There Is a